Superquadrics
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Superquadrics are generalizations of quadrics (which are ellipsoids, hyperboloids of one or two sheets, and paraboloids) using the exponents , assuming non-integer values. All such surfaces involve the use of a combination of trigonometric, hyperbolic trigonometric, and square root terms raised to these powers.
Contributed by: Robert Kragler (March 2011)
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Published: March 7 2011